News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-02-03
NOTES OF CURRENT EVENTS.

A CHICAGO butcher admits that two
thirds of the canned meat sold in the
markets there as chicken is in reality
the meat of rabbits that have be n long
frozen.
THE jury that recently tried two sa-
loon keepers of Woodland, Cal, fol
grand larceny returned this verdict
We, the jury, find the defendants not
guilty, with the recommendation that
| they leave the town within forty eight
hours"
NICHOLAS SPEAR, of Hartland, Mich ,
/ went home for a weeks spree one day
last week, and the next morning put
Paris green in the WATERFALL used by the
family. Then he for OF all about it and
drank of the water himself and died.
His wife discovered the poison in the
| dipper before any other person drank of
it.
A COMMERCIAL traveller says that in
Pittsburgh barrooms one can buy two
drinks for a quarter, and if he buys one
drink he pays fifteen cents and receives
check which represents two and one
half cents. The next time he wants a
drink he pays ten cents and the check.
1t seems a good scheme to encourage
trade.
A TRAVELLER in one of the hotels of
Bangor, Me-, put his false teeth in a
glass of water when he went to bed the
other night. In the morning the water
was frozen solid, and as the water pipes
in the house were also frozen, he had to
take the glass to bed with him, and
tous thaw the ice before he could go to
breakfast.
SOME months ago Daniel Kelly, of
Port Clinton, Pa, saw that q heavy
boulder had fallen on the track of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, and he managed
to run ahead and stop an approaching
passenger train in time to avert a wreck
The other day he received a costly watch
and chain with the compliments of the
railroad company.
A COMPANY of friends recently called
at the house of citizen of Middletown,
Conn, to spend the evening. They
were asked to lay their coats,s scloaks,
and shawls n bed where a baby was
sleeping. The little one was unusually
good that evening, and neither stirred
nor cried. When the guests had gone
it was found to be dead. 1t had been
smothered by the garments piled upon
it.
A CHICAGO drummer tells of a mer
chant in Walnut, Ill, who, being pros
porous and heavy buyer, is well treated
by the commercial travellers, and has
many a cigar offered to him. He always
takes the cigar, says Its against my
principles to smoke in business hours; I'll
hight this after supper, and when he
gets hundred puts them in box and
sells them to train boy on the Burling
ton road for half price.
A YoUNG woman of Louisville was
carefully picking her way along a slip
perry sidewalk the other day just behind
IN elderly and portly man. Suddenly
he shipped, and in his efforts to keep
from falling down he threw one hand
backward and struck the young lady
souarely and violently on the nose.
The blow summed her so that she had to
be assisted into an adjacent store, and
an examination by physician developed
the fact that her nose had been broken.
Both eyes had became blackened from
the injury.
DR.. BRowN-SEQUARD is quoted as say
ing that one has only to harden the neck
and feet and destroy their sensitiveness
to prevent taking cold. This is done
by daily blowing a ream of cold air,
by means of an elastic bag, upon the
neck, and by immersing the feet in cold
water. The air is at first only slightly
cool, but is each day made colder, until
the neck can stand an arctic blast with
impunity. The feet are immersed in
wa er at first at temperature of about
ninety degrees, and this is gradually re-
duced to thirty-eight degrees.